I am an intuitive type, and I am nostalgic as hell - but there is a better word for what I like: 'retro.' I love old things, but only from the recent past. And especially things from the 1970s and 1980s, and also especially the things that look or seem modern from those time periods. For instance, I love reading science books from those decades, including books by Richard Feynman, Carl Sagan, and Isaac Asimov. Someone would love to call me `traditionalist` for what I like, and there is nothing wrong with traditionalists to me, but I feel my interests escape that kind of narrow classification like crazy…
Do you like nostalgia? What types are nostalgic and why?


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so what is it if you read a scifi book set in the future written a generation or two ago? I always classified that as "future" but it seems you classify it as "past" (with the authors)?

I do have interests and ideas as well as ppl I feel strongly about. I gradually incorporate ideas and values into my worldview for sure. They say I'm ILE, however I find anything I'm not currently using be "forgettable trivia or passing interest". I have a use it or lose it approach to these things I can't incorporate into my worldview. Stuff and skills I learn and know have to be useful now and interrelated, otherwise why acquire the knowledge in the first place. They will serve nothing in the future, only passing curiosities.




